Can Egyptians speak Modern Standard Arabic? New Arabic students often wonder: Should I start learning Modern standard Arabic or colloquial Arabic (Egyptian Arabic for example)? There is no one true answer for this question that works for everyone, simply because every student has his own reasons to learn Arabic. So, every student needs to understand the relationship between Modern standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic, and the differences between them before deciding. One of the common questions that students usually ask before deciding: Do Egyptians understand Modern standard Arabic? The answer is: yes, they do. Egyptians understand Modern standard Arabic, even uneducated persons, they all understand newscast, and historical movies, TV series, even children watch cartoons in MSA. But can they speak it? Short answer here is: many of them can, but they usually don’t do it! This experiment I’ve made for my blog, I chose a number of Egyptian friends, and I gave them some questions (orally) in MSA, and I recorded all of these interviews. Speakers here really diverse: Arabic teacher, programmer university student, ..etc. Some of them spoke seriously and some of them saw the whole thing as Humor, some of whom spoke MSA fluently, and some of them stammer. I asked them in MSA, and they answered: https://soundcloud.com/davinci2/can-egyptian-speak-modern-standard-arabic